Before I show you other sites of India, I thought I would go back to the basics and share with you a simple Greek Salad. Being a European stomach, Indian water can be a little on the dangerous side and to avoid the Delhi Belly, the recommendation is to stay clear of salads and uncooked vegetables all together. For this reason, I came back home with an unstoppable desire to stuff myself with just that.
Luckily, I had all those leftovers in the fridge and this was the first thing I ate when I came back. It’s a great summer dish or a full dinner in itself and it is, as most traditional meals, quite a complete one. It has a measure of feta cheese, that nowadays you can try in low fat versions, tomatoes with all those beta carotenes, cucumber, filling but mainly water in its composition, onion and olives. I have used back olives but take your pick.
I was recently recommended to add a pinch of oregano and it was the right suggestion, it really brings the greeks flavours up, so as a top up, feel free to add a pinch of that lovely herb.
The secret for me is actually the dressing. My special (or not so special) super healthy dressing made of mustard, lemon and olive oil. In a little bowl, add 2 pinches of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of Dijon mustard, the juice of one lemon and 1 and 1/2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. To emulsify this, you can either use a fork or a milk froth thingie until its a think yellow sauce. Add half of it to your salad, and you can keep the other half to use another day, it keeps very well for at least 1 week.
The good thing about this dressing is that it incorporates all the benefits of the C vitamin from the lemon and the good fats from the Olive oil and it is completely free from sugar and nasties.
I hope you like it!
Looking Yummy.. and a perfect healthy meal. 👌
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Thanks, yes it is totally healthy and so delicious! 🙂 xx
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This looks sooo good – nothing better than a good Greek salad with black olives – yum!! Thanks for the dressing recipe Marylin!
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you are very welcome! I hope you like it, it really works with many salads and brings them up just a notch, to make them extra tasty 😀
Don’t hesitate using them for other dishes in which you would use a normal salad dressing. 🙂
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Thanks for the yumminess, every now and then I get a craving for a Greek Salad – it just hits the spot, but what could be more fun than making it yourself 🙂 Harlon
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haha I agree, it’s better home made, every single time 😉
Thanks Harlon!
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This looks so good. It’s also easy
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Dead easy! And if you present it nicely, also quite appealing! 🙂 Thanks for popping by !
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Such a perfect salad… I love the idea of adding oregano. I get a mine straight from Greece and it does wonders to every meal. (looking forward to more pics from your trip… just saying!)
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I have 1300 pictures from the trip!! XD it is such a job just to go through them to select them haha but I will for sure, thanks for wanting to see them Annika xo
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That’s always the problem for me too! Still have vacations from a few years ago that I need to go through!
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I absolutely love salads, and your salad looks really colourful and so tasty. Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂
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Thank you so so much! 😀
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Mmmmmmm! looks good.
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Thanks Jim 🙂
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That sounds really good…
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Thanks 🙂
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Oh my does that look delicious!!!
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Great-looking salad. 👁👁
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Thanks Gail 🙂
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Another awesome healthy option for me to try thankkk yoouuuuu
M glad there is no balsamic vinegar in this salad I don’t like it at all.
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Yeah! I am not a big fan either… too sweet for me 😉
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